Senecio rapifolius |
Senecio amplectens |
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openwoods ragwort |
alpine groundsel, showy alpine ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (20–)30–60 cm (rhizomes branched, spreading or suberect). | Perennials, (5–)10–60 cm (rhizomatous or with branched caudices). | ||||
Herbage | (unevenly purple-tinged, often glaucous) glabrous. |
(often purplish-tinged) glabrous or sparsely and unevenly hairy, especially near leaf axils and among heads, usually glabrescent. |
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Stems | 1–(2–3). |
single or loosely clustered. |
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Leaves | progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades ovate to oblanceolate, 4–8(–9+) × (2–)3–5 cm, bases tapered, margins dentate to incised-dentate (some denticles callous; mid leaves similar, smaller, ± clasping; distal leaves bractlike). |
usually progressively reduced distally (basal sometimes smaller than proximal or mid leaves); petiolate (petioles shorter than to equaling blades, often clasping); blades broadly lanceolate or lanceolate to oblanceolate, (5–)10–20+ × 2–4(–5+) cm, bases tapered, margins dentate to denticulate (distal leaves smaller, bractlike). |
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Ray florets | 0. |
usually ± 13, sometimes fewer; corolla laminae (10–)15–25 mm. |
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Phyllaries | (± 5) ± 8, 3–4(–5) mm, tips green or brownish. |
± 13 or ± 21, tips often black or brownish (sometimes with scattered black hairs). |
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Calyculi | 0 or of 1–3+ lance-deltate to lance-linear bractlets (mostly less than 1 mm). |
of 2–5+ linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/2 phyllaries). |
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Heads | 25–60+ in cymiform clusters of 3–12. |
nodding, 1–5(–10). |
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Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
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2n | = 40. |
= 40, ca. 175–180. |
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Senecio rapifolius |
Senecio amplectens |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–early fall. | |||||
Habitat | Rocky hillsides and cliffs in coniferous wooded areas | |||||
Elevation | 1800–2800 m (5900–9200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; ID; SD; WY
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CO; MT; NM; NV; UT; WY
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The varieties of Senecio amplectens are distinguished by morphologic tendencies and habitat preferences; there are many intermediates. Where the ranges of the two overlap, var. amplectens occurs at slightly lower elevations than var. holmii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 553. | FNA vol. 20, p. 552. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | ||||
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Synonyms | Ligularia amplectens | |||||
Name authority | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 409. (1841) | A. Gray: Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 33: 240. (1862) | ||||
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